Wall Street Regulation
Know Your Financial Position On-Demand with a Single Version of the Truth
This is a time of great upheaval on Wall Street. Regulation is “the biggest factor shaping the future of the financial industry,” Financial News noted Tuesday. Dodd-Frank and Basel III will have firms on both sides of the Atlantic seeking more data granularity faster than ever.
Can “Too Big to Fail” Be Fixed?
Independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders recently proposed legislation to break up financial institutions that US Attorney General Eric Holder deems too big to fail. Laws should apply to Wall Street as well as everybody else, Sanders wrote in a Huffington Post piece. So I was stunned when our countrys top law enforcement official recently suggested [...]
"Capitalism never solves its crisis problems; it moves them around"
Gaius: Consistently terrific posts. Do you also blog at other sites or re post these? The bottom line is that with governments owned by the corporations we seem to be powerless. No one has the money to run a campaign based on changing banking or Wall Street, regulation, etc. As a result we have no [...]
Grassley Proposes Eliminating 3 Seats On Powerful Court To Keep Obama From …
As ThinkProgress has previously explained, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the second most powerful court in the country. Its also a bastion of right-wing jurisprudence thanks in no small part to Senate Republican filibusters. Two George W. Bush appointees on this court recently struck down clean air [...]
Wall Street’s Congress Investment Yields Dividends In Deregulation Votes
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EDITORIAL: Behind the Bernanke curtain
The spooks dont preside over the most secretive agency of the government. Its no place for spies or their spymasters, so it isnt the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency or even the Office of National Intelligence. The place where the deepest secrets are kept is where the gnomes of the central banks work. [...]
Paul Ryan’s Budget, Ayn Rand’s Dream
The inspiration for Paul Ryans budget comes directly from Ayn Rand. In fact, far too much of the current budget debate is shaped by her philosophy that so viciously divides the world into creators against the moochers — the makers against the takers. How else it is possible to propose a budget that so favors [...]
Why An Obscure Lawyer That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Is The Most …
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is the second-most powerful court in the country, owing to its steady stream of major regulatory and national security cases. It is also a place where good laws go to die. Two George W. Bush appointees to this powerful court undid more than [...]
Wall Street Deregulation Advances As Top Democrat Warns That Vote Could …
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‘Barack Obama antichrist’ conspiracy theory has subscribers, US survey finds
A Public Policy Polling survey, conducted in America and released on Tuesday, has revealed that nearly one in four Americans suspect that President Barack Obama may be the antichrist. 37% of the American population believed that global warming was a hoax, as per the survey. In accordance with this survey, more than 50% of the [...]